#25986: RFC 6532 support for e-mail
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Reporter: sergei-maertens | Owner: sergei-
| maertens
Type: Bug | Status: assigned
Component: Core (Mail) | Version: 1.9
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by sergei-maertens):
* has_patch: 0 => 1
Comment:
As I was implementing this, some extra information:
* The RFC 6532 is a red herring. The actual issue was that the unicode
characters were not properly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Encoded-
Word MIME word-encoded]. To support said RFC, an extra mail-server plugin
must be enabled, so I went the safe way for Django where that's not
needed.
* There are major differences between Python 2 and 3. This is the case in:
* the FakeSMTPServer in the testcases, where the `mailfrom` variable
might not be MIME-word-encoded all the way.
* the usage of `Header(<string>, <encoding)`, where the `str`
representation calls the `encode` method on Python 2 and on Python 3 it
simply returns the initial `<string>` that was passed in.
**Potential issue**:
Because of the difference in `str` representation, that has been altered
to always call the `encode` method. This causes simple ascii local parts
to look garbled, for instance: `[email protected]` becomes
`[email protected]`. When django users test the e-mail messages
generated by Django, they may have failing tests because they're not
expecting the encoded version. I have not personally confirmed this yet
though.
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